I laugh when I hear pundits talking about Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, as if he’s going to last that long. Let me make it very clear: Trump will resign sometime in 2019. I guarantee it.
Trump, and at least one of his children, is in some very, very serious trouble. When you factor in the scale of his High Crimes and Misdemeanors, as well as his position in government, he is perhaps the most crooked, corrupt politician in American history.
Some context is important here. Let’s recap the two biggest presidential scandals of the last five decades. Richard Nixon left office disgraced by Watergate. He wasn’t impeached but would’ve been (and likely indicted as well) had he not cut a deal to resign on August 9, 1974 in his second year of his second term. He threw his presidency in the toilet over a cheap, 3rd-rate break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and then obstructed justice in a bone-headed cover-up.
Bill Clinton was impeached in December 1998 by the Republican-controlled House, but the GOP Senate couldn’t muster enough of the 2/3’s vote they needed to remove him from office. Clinton’s impeachment was all about perjury. Lying about sex. Period. Clinton’s biggest crime? He was, literally, an unapologetic horn-dog who simply wanted to get off.